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Saint Joseph’s High School celebrated its first state baseball title Saturday.(Photo: Stock art.) Nearly four months ago, St. Joseph’s High School in South Bend was celebrating a Class 3A girls basketball title. Saturday, it celebrated its first baseball championship. Michael Dunkelberger pitched a complete game shutout, allowing only three hits and giving up two walks in a 4-0 victory over Jasper at Victory Field. Jasper threatened early but could not get on…

Morning everyone, and welcome to the big one. Yes, it’s Fathers’ Day here in Britain. In fact, this really is the big one – the final of many fans’ dreams, and of every administrator’s. It’s the first time a major cricket tournament has ever culminated in the biggest local derby in the whole of sport. It’s India v Pakistan. It’s also superstars v journeymen, overlords v underdogs, well-oiled machinery v…

The late Bill Dineen spent the better part of two seasons coaching the Philadelphia Flyers in the early ‘90s, a tenure that not only allowed him to coach his son Kevin, but also face son, Gord. At the time, Gord was a defenseman with the Ottawa Senators. And when the Dineen clan all converged on the Spectrum on Feb. 9, 1993, it was Kevin and Bill who skated away with…

4:00 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment BROOKLYN, Mich. — After three scary wrecks because of brake failures during the past month, NASCAR decided to do nothing to require teams to run more durable packages. And that appears to be just the way the teams want it. Joey Logano, Jimmie Johnson and Jamie McMurray all have had brakes fail at high speed, Logano at Kansas triggering…

A member of the “raspberry” team retrieves the ball after it went out of bounds during the final match of the World Refugee Day Cup, an event organized by Soft Landing Missoula to benefit, and celebrate, Missoula’s refugees, on Saturday evening.

Saint Joseph’s High School celebrated its first state baseball title Saturday.(Photo: Stock art.) Nearly four months ago, St. Joseph’s High School in South Bend was celebrating a Class 3A girls basketball title. Saturday, it celebrated its first baseball championship. Michael Dunkelberger pitched a complete game shutout, allowing only three hits and giving up two walks in a 4-0 victory over Jasper at Victory Field. Jasper threatened early but could not get on…

The man who shot House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and others at a congressional baseball practice earlier this week had with him a piece of paper with doodles and the names of three lawmakers, according to a person familiar with the case. The person told the Associated Press on Saturday that investigators weren’t sure of the significance of the names and didn’t know whether it was a list of people…

Saint Joseph’s High School celebrated its first state baseball title Saturday.(Photo: Stock art.) Nearly four months ago, St. Joseph’s High School in South Bend was celebrating a Class 3A girls basketball title. Saturday, it celebrated its first baseball championship. Michael Dunkelberger pitched a complete game shutout, allowing only three hits and giving up two walks in a 4-0 victory over Jasper at Victory Field. Jasper threatened early but could not get on…

Asked during a discussion at the College Republican National Committee’s convention to comment on the violent attack on a GOP baseball practice earlier in the week, Caitlyn Jenner quipped, “Liberals can’t even shoot straight.” Video of Jenner’s remarks, which were delivered at a dinner closed to press on Friday, was posted to Facebook Live by a College Republican group in Virginia. “Nobody deserves what happened out there,” Jenner began. “There’s…

The Confederations Cup, the quadrennial dress rehearsal for soccer’s World Cup, opened Saturday in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hometown of St. Petersburg. It’s not a milestone many find worth celebrating. The start of the two-week, eight-nation tournament is FIFA’s final blessing of the tournament to come next summer. It’s too late to turn back now — not that there was a possibility of that happening anyway. “I can guarantee you…

After nearly 50 years of partnership, cross-promotion, and the consistently weird dissonance of having one of the world’s biggest purveyors of grease-soaked beef sponsor some of its most fit and talented athletes, McDonald’s and the Olympics have parted ways. The fast food chain first teamed up with the international competition in 1968, delivering burgers to competitors, then going on to design elaborate international locations for hungry tourists, directly sponsor the…

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James “Tommy” Hodgkinson must not have seen the signs.  They were hard to miss in the Alexandria, Virginia, neighborhood known as Del Ray where he gunned down Republicans playing baseball. “Practice Kindness” yard signs are ubiquitous in Del Ray. If he did see the signs, Hodgkinson must not have taken them very seriously. “Practice Kindness” sign, blocks from shooting (Image Credit: J. Christian Adams, PJ Media ) Del Ray prides…

NPR’s Melissa Block talks to Howard Bryant of ESPN about the latest in baseball, including what’s ahead for the Yankees and the Chicago Cubs.

WASHINGTON — The man who shot House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and others at a congressional baseball practice earlier this week had with him a piece of paper with doodles and the names of three lawmakers, according to a person familiar with the case. The person told The Associated Press on Saturday that investigators aren’t sure of the significance of the names and don’t know if it was a list…

For many fathers and sons, baseball marks the passage of time. It’s like the mythical Terrance Mann said in his famous soliloquy in the movie “Field of Dreams”: “America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.” A couple of weeks ago, I had one of those moments on a…

x Embed x Share CLOSE The Raiders won 10-4 at Victory Field on Friday, June 16. Dakota Crawford, Joe Spears/IndyStar Buy Photo Cardinal Ritter High School players celebrate upon their victory over Wapihani High School, 2A baseball title game, Victory Field, Indianapolis, Friday, June 16, 2017. CRHS won 10-4. (Photo: Robert Scheer/IndyStar)Buy Photo INDIANAPOLIS — Cardinal Ritter’s first baseball state championship finished with a flourish. Senior shortstop Alex Vela cut…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The state of Michigan is seeking to terminate the parental rights of a sports doctor accused of sexual assaulting dozens of women and girls. The Lansing State Journal reports (http://on.lsj.com/2rr8rqy ) attorneys for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services filed a petition against 53-year-old Larry Nassar. Lawyers cited December testimony from an FBI agent who said investigators found images and videos of child pornography…

Nick Wass/Associated Press Coming off a close affair won by Ryan Blaney in Pocono, the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series turns its attention to one of the season’s more entertaining events in recent years, the FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan International Speedway. Two years ago, this race saw a jaw-dropping four red flags thanks to rain, making for repeated entertaining sprints for first place before an early ending. Now pair…

WASHINGTON – McDonald’s Corp ended its 41-year-old sponsorship of the Olympic Games three years early, the International Olympic Committee said on Friday, reflecting the US fast-food giant’s focus on its core business as well as rising Olympics sponsorship costs and declining TV ratings. McDonald’s deal would have run through the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, and bowing out will likely to save it hundreds of million of dollars if it…